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PHP – Truncate a string to a given length

September 9, 2008 No Comments

This is a function I use to display the ellipses when I want to truncate and display a summary of a larger body of text.

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<?php
function truncateString($intLength = 0, $strText = "") {
    if ($intLength == 0) {
        return $strText;
    }
    
    if (strlen($strText) > $intLength) {
        preg_match("/[a-zA-Z0-9]{0, " . $intLength . "}/", $strText, $strNewText);
        return ($strNewText . "...");
    }
    else {
        return $strText;
    }
}
?>
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